Yet together, the pair will form an indomitable bond, and rise to challenge an empire. And discovery of the talent allowing them to communicate would mean her execution. Although she hears his thoughts and saved his life, Yukiko knows he'd rather see her dead than help her. Read more with a fabled griffin, now furious and crippled. Disaster strikes and Yukiko is stranded in the wilderness. But any fool knows griffins are extinct - and death will be the price of failure. Yukiko and her warrior father are forced to hunt down a griffin at the Shogun's command. Land and sky have been poisoned by clockwork industrialisation, the Lotus Guild oppresses the populace and the nation's Shogun is lost to his thirst for power.
One girl and a griffin against an empire: A dying land. A debut dystopian steampunk fantasy set against the backdrop of feudal Japan Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. Martin’s Press/Tor UK and PanMacMillan.Description for Stormdancer Paperback. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.īut together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a talent that if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus Guild.
But any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.
The hunters of Shima’s imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger – a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever. The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. – Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of THE NAME OF THE WIND “I’m afraid I missed everything you said after “Japanese Steampunk.” That’s all I really needed to hear.”
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